Forbidden Kingdoms - Paris: The Spectral City Babbage Edition

In the dark there are things that man should never see and in the dim shroud that encompasses Paris these things make their presence known. Even at the height of noon the haunted city is cloaked in a penumbra, casting a gloomy shadow over the shifting pattern of the metropolis. Faintly the sounds of music can be heard over the din of the crowd, almost as if the ethereal denizens are holding Carnival in the heart of capital. Where once the mighty walked, they do so again. Souls trapped in a precarious balance between our world and Theirs. The orchestra is set at the base of the Arc de Triomphe, the time is right for you to journey to the city of Eternal Night. Wonâ€™t you join us for a dance?

In an inexcusable oversight, I managed to run a 4 month FATE game using this setting and book without posting a review. Spoiler alert, if I start a review with "I ran a months-long campaign with this book", I'm going to give it high marks. Victorian-er [...]

Okay, let me just say this straight up -- this is a FUN supplement! Even though I am not running a game currently using the Forbidden Kingdoms system, this city guide has given me literally dozens of ideas for games as far flung as Castle Falkenstein [...]

I would have liked to have seen the GM's Codex for Forbidden Kingdoms come out before the Paris sourcebook, but still, there is a lot of great material in here and beefs up the mystical content of the core game as well as provide a in-depth setting for [...]

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